Ocean carbon uptake widely underestimated
The world's oceans soak up more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research.
The world's oceans soak up more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research.
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This year's Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon pollution humanity needs to curtail, the European Union's Earth observation programme ...
Environment
Sep 3, 2020
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The volume of lakes formed as glaciers worldwide melt due to climate change has jumped by 50 percent in 30 years, according to a new study based on satellite data.
Environment
Sep 1, 2020
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Stewart began looking at the effects of climate change on primate habitats with spatial data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5, which estimates regional and seasonal temperature change per unit of CO2 ...
Environment
Aug 18, 2020
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After Tropical Depression 07W formed close to the western Philippines, it moved away and strengthened into a tropical storm in the South China Sea. NASA's Terra satellite provided a look at the strength of the storms that ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2020
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After Tropical Depression 09E formed near the coast of southwestern Mexico, infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite helped confirm its transition to a tropical storm.
Environment
Aug 10, 2020
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NASA's Aqua satellite provided a look at Typhoon Hagupit as it was nearing landfall in southeastern China.One of the ways NASA researches tropical cyclones is using infrared data that provides temperature information. Cloud ...
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Aug 4, 2020
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a direct relationship between climate warming and carbon loss in a peatland ecosystem. Their study published in AGU Advances provides ...
Environment
Jul 28, 2020
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The U.N. weather agency warned Friday that average temperatures in Siberia were 10 degrees Celsius (18 Fahrenheit) above average last month, a spate of exceptional heat that has fanned devastating fires in the Arctic Circle ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2020
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NASA's Aqua satellite used infrared light to identify the strongest storms and coldest cloud top temperatures in Tropical Depression 8, spinning in the Gulf of Mexico.
Environment
Jul 23, 2020
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